How we combated piracy with Ageshinkole 2 – Femi Adebayo

Nigerian actor and filmmaker Femi Adebayo has explained how he and his collaborators combated piracy when they opted for community screening of his current film, ‘Ageshinkole 2’.

In an honest interview, Adebayo explained that the piracy end was handled by Circuit TV, one of his two collaborators, and they achieved success with the film grossing over N400m in the first 12 days.

In his words, “Piracy was fully handled by circuit TV. They have an extremely wonderful structure in which the content they have can be pirated. Then with Blue Pictures, my distributor, we brought together our experience and we had no doubts that with our logistics and framework, we would get it right.”

In December 2025, Femi Adebayo announced ‘Ageshinkole 2: King of Thieves 2’ with a unique Community Cinema tour across Nigeria, a move he described as giving back to fans and innovating distribution by taking the film directly to local communities, departing from traditional cinema releases.

He emphasized that the sequel builds on the first franchise’s epic success, promising deeper drama, suspense, and a continuation of culturally rich storytelling, with showings in local areas all through December 2025 into early January 2026.